I miss those phones, use to love my nextel devices. You could use a
headset or put the phone to your ear if you didn't want people to hear
your convo. Also it was sweet to be able to use that when there was no
service with other devices.

On 1/6/19, Cristobal Munoz <cristobalm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because everyone wants to look like Dick Tracy or some futuristic dude from
> the 60s/70s.
> I think I read somewhere that the Nextel walkie-talkie phone thing was going
> to try to make a come back. I guess. Then again… Why did they go out of
> business in the first place? Don’t people remember how annoying it was to
> always hear walkie-talkie phones going off? This for me is a hard pass.
>
>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, and while I tried this walkie-talkie thing once or twice with my wife
>> it's just a toy and I don't get it.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
>> Cristóbal Muñoz
>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 9:02 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech
>>
>> Walkie-talkies? Man, I'm getting some serious Nextel 2007 flashbacks over
>> here. It's true what they say ... everything old is new again.
>>
>> Cristóbal
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
>> Sieghard Weitzel
>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 8:31 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech
>>
>> Did you enable double tap to talk? If not you may have to double tap and
>> hold and continue to hold while you speak your message.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Ann
>> Byrne
>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 8:02 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... transmitting speech
>>
>> So it says talk button.  When I double tap the talk button, nothing
>> happens.  I can hear the other party's transmissions, but I can't talk
>> back.  And, after all, a person needs backtalk!
>> At 06:30 PM 1/5/2019, you wrote:
>>> You have to open Walkie Talkie on the watch then add a contact rom
>>> there. Double tap on add contact and a list of them will come up.
>>>
>>> Jenn
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
>>> Ann Byrne
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 4:54 PM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: RE: Activating walkie-talkie ... contacts
>>>
>>> I am missing how to find contacts on the watch.  If I go into the phone
>>> app, my contacts are listed; I presume in messages also.  but I don't
>>> find a a stand-alone contacts entry.  When I ask Siri to open contacts
>>> on the watch he says he doesn't find anything called contacts.  Is
>>> there something I should do or should have done to remedy this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
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